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Texas Crimes of the Year, 2012

As it turns out, Texans indulged in all seven of the deadly sins.

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 26, 2012

Check out all 10 Crimes of the Year mugshots in our slideshow. In ordering the past year's multitude of mayhem, madness and overall malarkey here in the Lone Star State, we struggled to come up with a theme, a spine to link all the various stories we encountered. Should we...
Infamous Last Words: Some of the Strangest Final Utterances from Death Row

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 21, 2012

"Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel." Those were the last words of one George Appel, a cop-killer electrocuted by the state of New York back in 1928, and it might just be the greatest such utterance of all time. Not that Appel hasn't had some competition...
Sex Assault and Child Porn Charges Facing Taylor McClain, Atascocita High School Tennis Coach

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 19, 2012

According to an arrest affidavit, it all started with a trip to the Phobia Haunted House on the Northwest Freeway on the night of November 6. Sixteen-year-old "Julie" was in the backseat of Atascocita High School English teacher and assistant tennis coach Taylor McClain's car and 15-year-old "Heather" was in...
Sugar Land Sicko Donald C. Hernandez Jr.: Decades Behind Bars for His Bizarre Kidnap/Rape Ordeal

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 19, 2012

A previously convicted sadist who got off lightly for a twisted crime in Houston ten years ago was not so lucky last week in Trinity County, where a country jury gave him ten presidential terms behind bars. Donald Christopher Hernandez Jr. was convicted of both aggravated kidnapping and sexual assault...
Buried Kid Found Alive in Car Driven By Allegedly Smashed Mother

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 14, 2012

A Kingwood woman has been arrested after police caught her behind the wheel of a car while allegedly intoxicated on a cornucopia of substances, all while an eight-month-old baby was buried alive under clothing and a skateboard in the back seat of the trash-filled vehicle. Montgomery County Precinct 4 Deputies...

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